by Kathleen | Mar 3, 2020 | 2020 Honorees
Ady Barkan 2020 NORTH STAR AWARD HONOREE Ady Barkan is an influential health care activist, organizer, author and a co-founder of the Be a Hero PAC. At the Center for Popular Democracy, Ady founded and ran the Local Progress network and the Fed Up campaign to demand...
by Kathleen | Mar 3, 2020 | 2020 Honorees
Heather McGhee 2020 NORTH STAR AWARD HONOREE Heather McGhee is the distinguished senior fellow at Demos, a political strategist and a transformational leader. You may recognize Heather from one of her many television appearances, where she is not another talking head,...
by Kathleen | Mar 3, 2020 | 2020 Honorees
Kamilah Forbes 2020 NORTH STAR AWARD HONOREE Kamilah Forbes is an award-winning director, the executive producer of the Apollo Theater and a Hip-Hop visionary. Kamilah was born into a family of Jamaican immigrants and raised in Chicago. After graduating from Howard...
by Kathleen | Mar 4, 2019 | 2019 Honorees
2019 Frederick Douglass Award - Columbia County Sanctuary Movement Columbia County Sanctuary Movement is based in Hudson and organizes throughout Columbia County, where they bring together new citizens, other immigrants, and allies. Even as the shifting demographics...
by Kathleen | Mar 4, 2019 | 2019 Honorees
2019 Frederick Douglass Award - Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) RAPP’s leadership has become a unique and effective voice in Albany pressing for desperately needed changes to the parole system. New York state has steadily reduced the number of incarcerated...
